{"id":11180,"date":"2010-09-10T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T00:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=11180"},"modified":"2010-09-19T14:37:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T06:37:16","slug":"yummy-toddler-foods-japanese-pumpkin-caixin-and-minced-pork-porridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/09\/10\/yummy-toddler-foods-japanese-pumpkin-caixin-and-minced-pork-porridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Toddler Foods: Japanese Pumpkin, Caixin and Minced Pork Porridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another post on porridge :)<\/p>\n<p>So far, I have blogged about the following porridges:<\/p>\n<p>1) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/05\/12\/yummy-baby-foods-chicken-porridge\/\">Chicken porridge<\/a> (use homemade chicken stock and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/23\/yummy-baby-foods-seaweed-something\/\">add unsalted Japanese dried seaweed strips as garnishing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/08\/04\/yummy-baby-foods-threadfin-tofu-porridge\/\">Threadfin and tofu brown rice porridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3) Sweet corn, green peas and beef porridge<\/p>\n<p>4) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/01\/yummy-baby-foods-salmon-porridge\/\">Salmon and cauliflower porridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did something different for today&#8217;s recipe. I added seasonings to the meat &#8211; something which I didn&#8217;t do when Hannah was below one year of age. So here we go:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>white rice (1.5 Chinese soup spoon)<\/li>\n<li>boiling water (250 ml)<\/li>\n<li>organic Japanese pumpkin \/ butternut pumpkin (1 slice, cut into small chunks)<\/li>\n<li>organic cai xin (1 big leaf or 2 small leaves, finely chopped)<\/li>\n<li>minced pork fillet (1 heaped tbsp, remove fats and mince further with knife)<\/li>\n<li>ginger (1 slice)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seasoning for minced pork:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>soy sauce (1\/2 tsp, I used Kikkoman&#8217;s premium blend)<\/li>\n<li>mirin (1\/2 tsp)<\/li>\n<li>ground white pepper (dash)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Method<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1) Place washed rice, boiling water, ginger and pumpkin into slow cooker to cook on &#8216;high&#8217; setting for an hour.<\/p>\n<p>2) During the last 20 minutes of cooking, finely chop caixin leaves and add to the porridge in the slow cooker.<\/p>\n<p>3) Marinate the minced pork with the seasonings.<\/p>\n<p>3) After one hour of cooking, remove all pumpkin pieces and mashed half of them. Set aside the mashed pumpkin in a serving bowl while the remaining half could be discarded. (Most of the sweetness of pumpkin would have infused into the porridge.)<\/p>\n<p>4) Add the marinated minced pork and stir for a minute to break up the meat in the porridge.<\/p>\n<p>5) Scoop the porridge into the serving bowl with the mashed pumpkin. Mix well. Serve when the porridge has cooled off to just warm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"pumpkin-caixin-and-minced-pork-porridge-blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/pumpkincaixinandmincedporkporridgeblog.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pumpkin-caixin-and-minced-pork-porridge-blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another post on porridge :) So far, I have blogged about the following porridges: 1) Chicken porridge (use homemade chicken stock and add unsalted Japanese dried seaweed strips as garnishing) 2) Threadfin and tofu brown rice porridge 3) Sweet corn,<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/09\/10\/yummy-toddler-foods-japanese-pumpkin-caixin-and-minced-pork-porridge\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Yummy Toddler Foods: Japanese Pumpkin, Caixin and Minced Pork Porridge<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,479,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-baby-recipes","category-children-blues","category-recipes","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-479-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-14-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}